Drying device for safety razor blades



1936- A. P. DRACHMAN DRYING DEVICE FOR SAFETY RAZOR BLADES Filed May 1, 1935 Vv g M INVENTOR ALBERT P. DEACHMAN a M 5 w ATTORNE Patented Aug. 25, 1936 DRYING DEVICE FOR SAFETY RAZOR BLADES Albert P. Drachman, Huntington Park, Calif.

Application May 1, 1935, Serial No. 19,298

1 Claim.

This invention relates to drying devices for safety razor blades, and has for an object the provision of an exceedingly simple and inexpensive device of this character by means of which a wet blade can be quickly dried and pressure applied fiatwise against the opposite sides of the blade in a manner to avoid injury to the cutting edges of the blade when drying the blade.

It has become the custom in the handling of safety razors to cleanse same by placing the blade holder in a stream of hot water, such as from a domestic faucet, then removing the blade and drying same with a bath towel or other soft fabric material. In consequence thereof expensive towels are cut and materially injured by unavoidable contact of the sharp edges of the blade therewith. In addition thereto, the fine cutting edge of the blade is impaired and the life of the blade greatly shortened.

It is an important object of the invention to provide blade drying means, the use of which will overcome the disadvantages just above referred to and enable the blade to be quickly dried while in a perfectly flat condition and without requiring rubbing thereof, thus preventing any damage whatever to the delicate cutting edges thereof.

It is a further object of the invention to provide a sanitary form of dryer by means of which each blade can be separately dried by an absorbent element that can be destroyed when once used.

The invention consists substantially in the construction, combination, location and arrangement of parts, together with the novel methods employed in accordance therewith, all as will be more fully hereinafter set forth, as shown by the accompanying drawing and finally pointed out in the appended claim.

Referring to the drawing,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device showing same in an open position of adjustment, with a blade in a drying position;

Figure 2 is a view similar to Figure 1, showing the device closed as when advancing pressure fiatwise against a blade;

Figure 3 is a vertical section through the device showing same open;

Figure 4 is a view on an enlarged scale similar to Figure 3, and illustrating a slightly modified form of the device.

With respect to the form of my invention shown in Figs. 1 to 3, the razor blade drying device comprises a bracket consisting of a plane blade sup port or shelf 5 of any suitable Well-known stiff material, such as metal of the desired thickness, or any commercial form of composition of matter that will aiford a rigid structure and enable an effective pressure to be applied thereto without bending the structure.

Said shelf is joined to a plane back piece ill from which the shelf extends forwardly. Adjacent to the division line between the shelf and back piece are bearing pintles 6 which jut out in opposite directions. An inflexible flat compressing member or cover l, flanged on three sides to produce the end flanges 8 and front flange 3, has holes in the opposite end flanges 8, through which holes the pintles 6 extend thus making a hinge connection.

One or more rectangular sheets of blotting paper H) or other well-known absorbent material, which may be treated if desired with an antiseptic compound, are held between the foregoing flanges. Mounted on the upper surface of the shelf 5 are one or more sheets of blotting paper l i which may be the same in every respect as the sheet or sheets Ill. The backpiece I2 is adapted to be mounted on an upright support, for which purpose screws I3 are driven through as shown. In practice any known equivalent will serve the same purpose. The lower extremity of the backpiece I2 has an angular extension it which is bifurcated at i5 to receive the handle of a razor R and thus enable the razor to be hung from said extension as shown in dot and dash lines in Figure 3.

After a razor has been used and thereafter washed in the customary manner, the blade B can be placed flatwise upon the support 5 and the member I adjusted to the closed position shown in Figure 2. The member l and the support 5 are each smooth faced and of thin gauge so that when they are closed against each other, as when drying a wet blade, they may be more or less firmly pinched between the fingers and pressure advanced thereagainst to firmly press the absorbent surfaces against the opposite flat sides of the blade to thereby absorb the moisture and enable the blade to be removed from the device in a perfectly dry state, and this may be accomplished without fear of doing any injury whatever to the cutting edges of the blade. One may shift the pinching positions of the fingers to various portions of the smooth surfaces of the member I and support 5'to thus more rapidly take up the moisture upon the blade by contact of the absorbent surfaces.

In the form shown in Figure 4 the device is for all intents and purposes functionally and structurally the same as the form disclosed in Figures 1 to 3, inclusive, except that instead of providing absorbent surfaces of separate pieces of material a single piece of material is employed and provided with a medial line of fold F which is coaxial with the hinge 6a between the support 5a and the overlying member la, thus providing equal length stretches I6l6 which are seated flatwise against the confronting faces of the support 5a and member Ba.

In the form of the invention shown in Figure 4, the support 5a is recessed at IT to receive the overlying stretch l6 and the vertical depth of said recess is such relative to the thickness of the stretch Hi to expose the marginal edge thereof and thus enable the nail of the finger to be used to quickly insert the stretch from the support when replacing a new material for a worn material.

Many modifications and changes in detail will occur to those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the claim, and I therefore desire to have the foregoing description and illustrations used in connection therewith regarded in the illustrative sense rather than in a limiting sense.

I claim:

A razor blade drying device comprising a bracket consisting of a plane backpiece of stiff material and adapted to be mounted on an upright support, a shelf also plane and disposed at an angle to the backpiece and extending forward- 1y therefrom and joined thereto, bearing pintles jutting out in opposite directions adjacent to the division line between the shelf and backpiece, a cover flanged on three sides, the opposite flanges having holes through which the pintles extend thus making a hinge connection, and absorbent sheets on the confronting surfaces of the shelf and cover.

ALBERT P. DRACHMAN. 

